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Two Texas cities represent the divide between those who vote and those who could, but often don't 10/19/2024 09:25am • LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� Deep in the heart of Texas' sprawl, the city of Lewisville embodies the Lone Star State. Bisected by Interstate 35 and ribboned with six- and eight-lane thoroughfares lined with chain stores, Mexican restaurants and pawn shops, Lewisville, 23 miles north of Dallas, is the Black male teachers are a rarity in preschools. This pioneering program wants to change that 10/19/2024 12:06am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, was unsure of what he wanted to do with his life. Not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined Students and alumni celebrate Howard University's 100th homecoming 10/18/2024 08:18pm • On Nov. 27, 1924, a new house would cost a little over $6,000, Calvin Coolidge had just won a three-way race for the presidency and the Howard Bison took on Lincoln University���s Lions in their first homecoming. This weekend, thousands from all over the world are coming to celebrate Howard U Liam Payne's father arrives in Buenos Aires days after the pop star's fatal hotel plunge 10/18/2024 06:55pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� The father of former One Direction star Liam Payne arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday to arrange for the return of his son's body to England two days after the famous boy band singer fell to his death from a hotel balcony. After landing at the Buenos Aires Internation Perry High School shooter sought fame and tried to livestream the attack, investigation shows 10/18/2024 03:30pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The teenage shooter in a deadly attack at a small-town Iowa high school in January sought to gain fame with the shooting, tried to livestream his actions and had planned for weeks, according to investigators. The town of Perry, located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwe Former Florida college student charged in the death of a baby found in a trash can 10/18/2024 03:04pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� A former Florida college student is facing several charges in the death of her newborn infant, whose body was found wrapped in a towel in a trash can. Investigators said Friday that Brianna Moore, 19, is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great b Right-wing influencers hyped anti-Ukraine videos made by a TV producer also funded by Russian media 10/18/2024 11:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Kremlin could not have asked for better publicity at a better time when Ben Swann, a self-described independent journalist who promotes conspiracy theories, released a 12-part video series he promised would reveal dark truths about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Swa King Charles III's visit rekindles Australia's debate on ending ties to the British monarchy 10/18/2024 09:13am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in Sydney on Friday for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a trip that has rekindled debate about the nation���s constitutional links to Britain. The Sydney Opera House's iconic sails were i Polish zoo celebrates the birth of 4 Sumatran tigers, a critically endangered species 10/18/2024 08:27am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� A Polish zoo is celebrating the arrival of four Sumatran tiger cubs, announcing their birth Friday after keeping it a closely-guarded secret for weeks due to fears they may not survive. Officials at the Wroc��aw Zoo in the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw said the tigers � Mark Strong and Lesley Manville make ancient tragedy 'Oedipus' a political thriller 10/18/2024 08:18am • LONDON (AP) ��� Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke���s adaptation, ���O ���Kindness��� influencers on TikTok give money to strangers. Why is that controversial? 10/18/2024 08:05am • Every Christmas growing up in Minnesota, Jimmy Darts��� parents gave him $200 in cash: $100 for himself and $100 for a stranger. Now, with over 12 million followers on TikTok and several million more on other platforms, philanthropy is his full-time job. Darts, whose real surname is Kellogg, is one Mountain West commissioner says she's heartbroken over turmoil surrounding San Jose State volleyball 10/18/2024 12:39am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday the forfeitures that volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is ���not what we celebrate in college athletics��� and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surroun Tech firms remove social media accounts of a Russian drone factory after an AP investigation 10/17/2024 08:32pm • Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia's Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow's war in Ukraine. Posts on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok were taken down following an investigation by What we know about Liam Payne's death, including some of the unanswered questions 10/17/2024 07:43pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Wednesday at age 31 after falling three stories from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Payne was a beloved member of the group, which formed in 2010 after its m Ruben Gallego divorce records unsealed but reveal little about Democratic Senate candidate 10/17/2024 07:34pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Divorce records for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, were made public Thursday after an Arizona court unsealed most of the seven-year-old case file. The records offer little insight into the high-profile marriage or the r